Inside the dishevelled mind

Saturday, November 03, 2012

It's been over a year since my promise of posting more regularly. Life just keeps getting in the way.....

I've taken up crochet and made a couple of things so here is my latest item - a little dragon angel to remind me of my little ones I've lost to miscarriage. The first at 10 weeks in 2009, the second at six weeks in 2011 and the latest at 18 weeks in July 2012. It's a hard thing, especially with so many people around me having babies, but we are trying again with another cycle of treatment. Fingers crossed that we eventually get what we are longing for...

Friday, March 26, 2010

Both my friend and the sister of He Who Shall Not Be Named are expecting the patter of tiny clawshooves feet and I have decided to sew stuff for them.

I found a pattern and instructions for this hip mama diaper bag on the blog A Mingled Yarn. Of course we don't call them diapers in the UK so I have christened it the nappy bag of swirliness

It's almost really straight forward except for sewing the corners which I only perfected with my second last one so there was a lot of unpicking and swearing going on. At least for the next one the amounts of F's and C's I utter should be fairly limited.

So here is the finished product of the one I made for my friend who is due in July.

I also created a tag by using a iron on transfer however it's not very flexible and I doubt it will stand the test of time so I might fork out some dosh and get some made so I can add them to everything I make.

I love skulls :)

I have a bit more time until the sister of He Who Shall Not Be Named pop's out her bundle of nappiness so that's taken a back seat as I get ready for the Star Wars party I am organising, however I will post pictures when I am done.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

I love Star Wars, well the original three anyway, and have taken inspiration from some cross stitch projects in the Flickr groupSubversive Cross Stitch which have a Star Wars related theme. So here are some teaser pictures of my new needlework in progress:

That's no moon....

.....It's a space station

the weapon systems on this Death Star are not yet operational

but wait.............IT'S A TRAP

I'm making this for a surprise party which has a Star Wars theme so will be posting other items I will be creating in the future.

I've also made this fleece hat based on a pattern by Heather at dollar store crafts. It is modelled by the Hamster from Creature Comforts. Unfortunately I didn't have the pattern when I sewed it so my ears are a little high and small. If you haven't guessed it's meant to be Yoda not just some random green monster :)

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Even though I have some UFP's I have finished another felting project which is just as cool.

We had a dress a sprout competition at work. Really, it's the best thing to do with a sprout - other than bake it wrapped in bacon so that the lovely bacon fat disguises all the horribleness of the taste of sprout......hmmm bacon......sorry where was I? Oh yes, I dressed my sprout as a Raving Rabbid with a plunger gun. Unfortunately everyone thought my gun was Santa's boot and while I can see what they are getting at it was displayed in front of a background that showed the plunger gun peoples.

Anywho here he is in all his glory:

I'll be back

He is languishing in a box at the moment as the sprout has since rotten and been buried with full honours. So I now need to make him a felt head so I can have him guard my room at night when all the things that come alive while I sleep roam the land.